On a recent photo outing, and the very first on which I managed to con my 12 year daughter into coming along, I mounted a $70 Cosina 19-35 autofocus zoom to my K100D, turned the mode dial to
AUTOPICT and handed it to her with no more instruction than how to manipulate the zoom ring.
Most of her photos were just point-click-point-click-point-click with no thought to composition or much of anything else. But I was pleased to be able to take one of them, GIMP it up, and hand it to her as what strikes me as a pretty laudable photo. I did have to crop it to fix the composition, but I figure any positively encouraging results she sees out of her clickety-clickety-clicking may serve to make it easier to get her to tag along again in the future.
The subject is her mother holding a Konica C35 E&L (C35V outside Japan) zone focus compact 35mm.
Stuff like this is why I always say that the presence of the oft-maligned SCN modes on the K100D makes it truly a "family" camera. With just a twist of a dial we can make it into a very user-friendly glorified P&S.